Civil Servants: Servile to the government or service to the country?
With decades of unfettered power comes unfettered open support from the people who are supposed to be politically impartial – the civil servants. Dr Mahathir Mohamad rebuked his country’s civil servants for wearing blue uniforms and blatantly campaigning for Barisan Nasional during the recent general elections. “We question...
One former Prime Minister returns to glory, the other turns deadweight
Dr Mahathir Mohamad turns 93 next month. Emeritus Senior Minister Goh Chok Tong recently turned 77. While one has become Prime Minister of Malaysia for the second time, the other former Prime Minister of Singapore (youthful by comparison) has been relegated to the sidelines. Seeing ESM Goh being sidelined and consigned to “watching...
ST Editor-at-large: PAP Ministers out of touch with the ground?
On Sunday (3 Jun), Straits Times editor-at-large Han Fook Kwang, wrote an opinion piece entitled “Ministers, please speak plainly to the people”. While he acknowledged that the recent parliamentary speeches by the 4G leadership were good, he also opined that he is “not sure they connect well to the man in the street… They...
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